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Died. James ("Big Jim") Norris, 73, president of Chicago's Norris Grain Co. and famed sportsman; in Chicago. Long a hockey enthusiast, he founded the old Chicago Shamrocks, owned the Detroit Red Wings, was part owner of five of the biggest arena corporations in the U.S. (Chicago Stadium, Madison...
Since Dreiser and Frank Norris, the businessman in U.S. fiction has seldom been a hero; if he has not been a heel, he has at least been a target for satire. In Marquand's Point of No Return, the satire was gentle, in The Hucksters sharp. In many other...
Indecent Exposure. Some of those approached decided they were unable to whip up their beliefs in handy, non-controversial form for delivery in 3½ minutes of radio time. Wrote Novelist Kathleen Norris in refusing: "It's either a mawkish sermon, or it's indecent exposure." But an...
Who's Who. Smith named 76 contributors to the fund and the amounts they had paid. The average contribution was around $250. The biggest was $1,000 by a retired Pasadena businessman. The names resembled a Who's Who of Southern California business, included Oilman Earl Gilmore, President...
The contributors' list of Saints for Now covers a wide literary spectrum. Among them: Novelists Evelyn Waugh, D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Kathleen Norris, Journalists Vincent Sheean, Rebecca West and Whittaker Chambers, Sportswriter Paul Gallico, Poet Alfred Noyes and Moviemaker John Farrow. The majority are Roman Catholics, and all...